Liane Moriarty's latest offering is an Aussie family drama featuring the renowned tennis obsessed Delaney family, the tall, handsome Stan, tennis coach extraordinaire, and his wife, Joy, the force behind their tennis business. They have 4 adult children, the unable to settle and plagued with mental health issues, Amy, the solid, reliable, handyman and business communications teacher, Logan, the slick wealthy divorced trader, Troy, and the migraine troubled physiotherapist, Brooke, struggling to

I'm giving up on this only 7% into the audiobook because I refuse to finish the year on that bad note.

Liane Moriarty does it again! Joy Delaney has gone missing under mysterious circumstances. She’s left a cryptic message for her four children. And Stan, her husband, is acting very weird. The four children are loath to notify the police, because won’t suspicion fall on their dad? What does it say about the family that that’s the first thing they worry about?We hear from Joy, 69 years old, recently retired after selling their tennis academy, six months before she vanishes. Because out of the blue...

Moriarty is back with “Apples Never Fall”. I think this is one of her better works. What makes her special is her witty everyday observations: “He had bushy old-man eyebrows and good, honest, taxpaying eyes.” “Stan Delaney was not the sort of man to sit in a gutter. He was far too tall.” “The words were not startling, but it felt somehow as if they were witnessing a startlingly intimate conversation.”Open any page and you will find Moriarty at her height of her career. She is a master of wordcr...

I've got to hand it to Liane Moriarty. Just when I think I've seen it all, she comes along and completely surprises me with this sparkling and startling gem of a tale.Joy Delaney, beloved wife and mother of four, has disappeared. Her adult children are rightfully aghast, but they're reluctant to report her missing. Because they know the prime suspect will be their father, and they're not really sure of his innocence. When the police start asking questions, it quickly becomes clear everyone in th...

This was good I guess? I think I would have rated it higher if it wasn't for the ending. The explanation of the whole "what happened to Joy" thing was just stupid. And then the author decided we all needed to be reminded about the pandemic and that gets suddenly included at the end and I'm actually still kind of mad about that. If it had made sense to include it, like it was an integral part of the plot, I could have been ok with it, but this was just in there for no seemingly no rhyme or reason...

The Delaney family saga’s entire story truly matches with proverbial saying: apple never falls from the tree! This is well written, interesting reading written by one of my all time favorite author’s dry and dark sense of witty humor ! There’s big mystery about a mother’s abrupt, sudden disappearance but as the story moves back and forth between past and present with multi POVs of Delaney members: we realize how their decisions, choices, misdemeanors, regrets, secrets in the past shaped their f...

The Australian writer, Liane Moriarty, captured the family dynamics how we love and hurt the people closest to us. With complex relationships, flawed personalities, secrets, sibling rivalries and mainly regrets, we are harvested into this household through decades of their mistakes and failures. What could-have-been, what should-have-been and what is, reveals to us each decision they made had an outcome on their life. Brilliantly written with the best uncanny, snarky humor residing in every chap...

This was horribly dull and frankly ridiculous! 🙄 Too long, too many unbelievable moments, too many phone pick ups(650 is my estimate), but a great story to nap/sleep! 🤦‍♀️to.

I was thrilled to be approved for an advance listening copy of this book, and also excited to see that the narrator was Caroline Lee, who narrated the other Liane Moriarty books I've listened to previously. She gives the perfect voices to the entire Australian Delaney family and kept me completely invested in the story.This is a sweeping family saga featuring Joy and Stan, who have been married for fifty years and have four adult children--Amy, Brooke, Troy, and Logan. The family's "claim to fam...

Much Ado about nothing comes to mind on finishing this one.A novel about family and the ties that bind....For me this was a big investment (time wise) and it really didn't pay off.This is a long winded novel with a little mystery to it. The characters are dis-likable which I normally enjoy, however these characters were dull and the story became monotonous. I really didn't like the ending either, just too forced and ridiculous. This is my fourth novel by this author and the only one I really en

1.5 stars. This book. Was so boring. 464 tedious pages and very little happened. Like, it felt dull and slow the entire time, and then towards the end you find out — surprise! — even LESS happened than you were led to believe. What a twist!The characters/relationships didn’t feel believable at all to me, the timeline jumping around served no apparent purpose, the tennis stuff was tedious, the commentary on traditional marriage roles felt forced, the end was way too tidy, the last few chapters ha...

Apples Never Fall by Lianne Moriarty is a 2021 Henry Holt and Co. Publication. This one had my name on it! The Delaney family was destined to be a tennis dynasty of sorts. Joy and Stan ran a tennis school, but while all their children played tennis, none of them made it into the pros...The children are all grown now, with various occupations, and riddled with various life challenges, but everything comes to a crashing halt when Joy goes missing. Switching back and forth in time, we learn that on...

EXCERPT: The waitress approached the table . . . noting how they each sat in the same distinctive way, with their ankles locked around the front legs of their chairs, as if to prevent them from sliding away. 'Excuse me?'They didn't hear her. They were all talking at once, their voices overlapping. They were definitely related. They even sounded similar: low,deep, husky-edged voices. People with sore throats and secrets. 'She's not technically missing. She sent us that text.''I just can't believe...